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PATENTED'FEBJG, 1904.

M. D. COMPTON. SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 23, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented February 16, 1904..

MELVIN D. COMPTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,040, dated February 16, 1904:.

Application filed April 28, 1903.

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MELviN D. COMPTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

In many styles of gas-fixtures, more particularly those which are provided with large ovoid globes and with incandescent gas-lights all arranged for suspension so as to resemble an ordinary electric-arc lamp, it is difficult to provide for the proper removal of the globes, and it is in many instances a matter of consider able difiiculty to detach the globes from fixtures generally. It is the object of the present invention to provide means for holding globes in such a way that they may be readily detached from and applied to the fixtures even though the latter are suspended.

To this and other ends hereinafter set forth my invention, stated in general terms, comprises a support to which are pivoted globe or shade holding arms in such a way that the arms may be turned inward to permit of the removal of the shade or globe or outward into proper position for permitting them to hold the shade or globe.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shadeholder embodying features of the invention. Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the same in application to a fixture for holding a shade or globe; and Fig. 3 is a view, partly in section, illustrating a detail of construction.

In the drawings I have illustrated a device equipped with three arms; but it must be borne in mind that the invention is not limited to the employment of three arms, although a description will be given of the device illustrated in the drawings.

1 is a support adapted for application to a fixture or a part thereof.

2 represents shade-holding arms pivoted to Serial No. 154,723. (No model.)

the support 1 in such a way that they may be turned inward from their normal positions to permit of the passage over them of the shade. As shown, the arms 2 are notched at their free ends, as at 3, and the rim of the shade i or a shell at the bottom thereof rests in these notches. As illustrated, the support 1 is notched, and the arms 2 are pivoted between the parts formed by these notches. The ends of the arms and the bottoms of the notches are shown as beveled upon slightly diiferent angles. The effect of this is to permit the arms to move within fixed limits.

In use the shade i may be slightly lifted, so as to have its rim clear the notches 3, and this can be done with one hand, the other hand being free to turn the arms 2 inward. The globe 4 may be readily lifted down over the arms and in that way removed from the fixture. To replace the globe 4, it is simply lifted up over the arms, and the latter are then turned outward, so as to be in position to permit the notches 3 to engage the rim of the globe. A

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modifications may be made in details without departing from the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts hereinabove set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; but,

Having thus described the nature and objects of the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A shade-holder comprising a support having notches provided with beveled end walls,

and pivotal arms having notched free upwardly-projecting ends and having their inner ends beveled to a slightly difierent angle from the angle of bevel of the support-walls to permit the arms to move within fixed limits, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

MELVIN D. COMPTON. In presence of K. M. GILLIGAN, W. J. JACKSON. 

